Now Available! Consuming Kids
“As a professor of media & children’s culture, and as a parent, this is the film I’ve been waiting for.”
– Lynn Philips | author, Flirting with Danger
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MEF’s highly anticipated release, Consuming Kids, takes on the multi-billion dollar youth marketing industry and its controversial tactics. American kids now influence an estimated $700 billion in annual spending, and marketers target these kids virtually from birth with a relentless bombardment of sophisticated commercial appeals. Click here for more info about Consuming Kids.
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Featured Clip of the Month —Michael Kimmel: On Gender
Men & Women in a New Millennium
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In this powerful and accessible lecture, renowned speaker and best-selling author Michael Kimmel moves beyond the popular notion that ‘men are from Mars, and women are from Venus’ to advance a decidedly more earthbound and interconnected view of the things men and women have in common. Watch November’s clip of the month in which Michael Kimmel lays out the four ways in which women’s lives have changed over the past 40 years and the impact of this shift. Click here for more info about Michael Kimmel: On Gender.
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New Website, New Materials
Challenging media online
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By now, we hope you’ve checked out our new website. Did you catch all the new resources we've added?
* an expanded donor section
* free full-length streaming previews
* convenient online credit card purchasing
* online digital licensing purchasing
* links to books by media scholars
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National Communication Association Annual Conference
Come Meet Us!
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The National Communication Association’s Annual Conference will take place on November 21-24, 2008 in San Diego. While we are looking forward to meeting up with old & new friends, we are deeply concerned that the NCA has booked its conference at a hotel with a questionable labor and gay rights track record. If you or your colleagues are planning on attending, please make sure to come by booth #411 and speak with Kendra Hodgson & Alex Peterson. |
Top Ten Documentary Programs
A review of the best programs for documentary filmmakers
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The Independent, a website for independent and grassroots media-makers, just released their list of the top ten documentary programs in North America. The list includes both university degree and non-degree programs to investigate if you or someone you know is a budding filmmaker. Click here to read about the top ten programs.
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Naomi Klein Gives Crisis Investment Advice to Stephen Colbert
The Colbert Report
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